Outgoing UPA Govt. has strike last blow to debt trapped 10 million cotton and soybean growers of Maharashtra state mainly from crisis driven and farm suicide hit Vidarbha and Marathawada, when recommendations of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) has recommended Rs. 50 to nil hike in Minimum Support Price (MSP) to main cash crop cotton, soybean, paddy and pluses (tur) for next Khariff season 2014-15.

The decision was was made public just before Lok Sabha polls in Vidarbha and Marathwada region adding fuel to farmer’s unrest against ruling the Govt.

In
Focus

CACP
recommendation are contradictory to base formula of calculating
cultivation cost and deciding MSP and announcing the MSP when CACP
chairman Dr. Ashok Gulati has already announced the plan to step down
in February last in ill intended, will ruin the complete agrarian
economy of region hence Mahrashtra farmers urged Indian Govt. to
ignore these CACP recommendations, Kishor Tiwari of Vidarbha
Jnandolan Samiti informed in a press release today.

Here
is CACP 2014-15 final recommendation

Crop

Cultivation
cost

State
recommendation

In
year 2013

Last
year MSP

HIKE

Cotton
(Medium staple

Rs.6,800
per quintal

Rs.6200
per quintal

3700 -
3750

50

-
Cotton (long staple)

Rs.7,200
per quintal

Rs.6400
per quintal

4000
- 4050

50

Soyabean
(black )-

Rs.5000
per quintal

Rs.4800
per quintal

2500
- 2500

NIL

soyabean
(yellow)

Rs.5200
per quintal

Rs.5000
per quintal

2560
- 2560

NIL

Tur

4300
- 4350

50

Paddy

Rs.2200
per quintal

Rs.2000
per quintal

1310
- 1360

-
50

Vidarbha
Jnandolan Samiti has requested the Uunion Govt. to relook CACP MSP
fixed for 2014-15 and revised it to for cotton @Rs.6500/-,
soyabean@Rs.5000/-, pulse (Tur) @Rs. 5000/- and paddy @Rs. 2500 per
quintal in order to avoid another spiral farm suicides in
Maharashtra , informed Kishore Tiwari of VJAS in a letter to Indian
Govt. with copy to Maharashtra chief minister .